Player One Podcast

Hi Guys – I listened to p1p with dismay yesterday and it bugged me and got me up early this am. I’m no ME fangirl, but listening to you dismiss ME2 with such definitive sourness after rhapsodising about the Church of Cunt and Bayonetta, then chucking out the notion of ME2 with such flippancy, I have to question your weirdness towards ME2. You admit during the podcast that Bayonetta is stupid. Many many times. No story … and “scant” gaming skills required, only hand and necessary at times, what’s happening to gaming, we’re losing our way. Gees, I don’t know any games like this girls play. This is slippery slope of games sadly losing to gratuitous objectification of women, no matter how over the top it is. Games are losing their sexiness and just getting purely sexed up. Sex sells, yes, but only to specific dorks who buy into that shit. Anyhow, I’m looking forward to playing ME2, ME1 was by far from perfect, but a fair game. I sat after listening and wondered what it felt like to be a Bioware employee, when you’ve put in hours and hours of work and dedication into a game, and have it thrown out with such flippancy. It was kind of sad to me. I’ll listen again to your podcast and hear what you have to say. I think eventually when ME2 is eventually reviewed, you are going to have to eat your words and boxers. Too much testosterone in that room, bring in Dana more often. It’s drippin’ off the walls, guys.

Wait you don’t have Smarties in the US but you have a candy called smarties and they’e what we (Canadians) call rockets. Not to turn your podcast into Giant Bomb but it might be fun to have you guys try some out.

@quicksand_surfer
Comparing our relative interest in Bayonetta and Mass Effect 2 is a bit like apples and oranges, eh? Our feelings towards one of those games has no bearing on our thoughts of the other. You could have just as easily gotten on our case for hyping Tumbledrop so much while dismissing ME2.

Regardless, since I’m the only one of us who has played Bayonetta, I wouldn’t say that it requires “scant gaming skills.” On the contrary, the combat system is actually quite deep, and the game can be pretty tough. Gameplay-wise, I like it better than others of its ilk like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden.

As for Mass Effect 2, my disinterest in it stems from a combination of not having the time to devote to an RPG and my inability to get into Western RPGs in the first place. Although I certainly recognize that BioWare is a great developer–and I’m sure that ME2 is just as good as the rest of their stuff–their games simply aren’t my bag.

@quicksand_surfer
I’m not even sure where you’re coming from, here. I’m pretty sure I just said that I want more time with ME1 before jumping into ME2. So I will not be buying it right away, as spending upwards of $80 on a game just to have it sit on my shelf for months makes zero sense.

Poor Platinum Games…seeing a game they’ve put hours of work and dedication into dismissed before one has even played it. It looks as though you’re doing the exact thing you’re accusing us of doing.

america is so backwards, rockets called smarties WTF?